🚲 The best way to cycle from Clapham Junction to Fulham without traffic

Wouldn't have thought the two areas would've been so close to one another!

Quick correction… As shown in one of their old documentary videos here on Youtube, So Solid Crew used to live on the Badrick Court Estate, Between York Road and Gwynne Road, and coincidentally, where I spent a lot of my Childhood years, at my Aunt's Maisonette at 102 Badrick Court 😀

46 minutes by Thames Clipper ?!?😂

@1:50 i cycle this journey about once a month – and I never knew about the route through the estate! will definitely try it next time 🙂

Excellent route! Thanks for sharing!

Given that cyclists need to make end to end journeys and want the shortest route and that we – as a society – need to get cyclists away from cars as much as possible to lower the number of accidents and healthcare issue, I think that the Mayor of London should have the power to step in and impose cycle solutions, if the local borough is not implementing a solution themselves.

What we need is a cross London plan to connect every area in London with every other area in London, with the local councils having an input into the plan and being the delivery agents. The budget for doing this sort of thing should be handed out from Central Government, via the Mayor of London's office. If the local councils get on with it, the Mayor should leave them to it. But if there is a dispute between two councils or if one council is obstructive, the Mayor should be able to step in.

Air quality, for local people, is important, and local councils and the Mayor of London should really be publishing reports telling people how low air quality is, in various districts in London. We need to have targets to lower air quality and cycling is an easy way to do that. So if a council is obstructive to cycle routes and the pollution for residents is high, that should be broadcast on the local radio stations, exactly the same as we would broadcast weather warnings for dangerous winds. Councils retaining control of cycle lanes should be dependent on them having an active plan to get below dangerous levels of pollution ASAP and to permanently remove unnecessary car journeys through residental streets.

I'm actually someone who thinks that we need to go all in cycle routes across London, both to make things better for people, but also because we will save money on the NHS and there will be less potholes on residential streets if they are no longer used as rat runs. Our "big boy roads" can be built to withstand more punishment and the Mayor of London can deal with the "big boy" road maintenance, while the local councils should be able to improve the walkability in the small roads and come up with street schemes that last decades.

But, as this sort of thing has to work for left-leaning and right-leaning authorities, I actually do not have a problem with the scheme that Fulham set up. One of the arguments I hear against modal filters is that they block district nurses and people visiting elderly relatives. And the Fulham solution – while not going as far as I'd go, if I was in charge – totally invalidates that argument. I therefore think that what Fulham has done is a good "do minimum" solution. And if drivers argue that Fulham "just put in cameras to make money" that's Fulham Council's problem to deal with. However, like I said before, I do think there should be forward momentum on cycle support. So if Fulham does not have continuous work on adding to the scheme, the Mayor should be able to give them notice "Do something new by this date or I will apply to take over."

The congestion charge and ULEZ use the same sort of cameras as the cameras that Fulham are using. So if Fulham can't be bothered to put in a third or forth zone and the Mayor of London puts in his own cameras (with local people not getting tickets) I'd be very happy for those fines to go to the Mayor of London's office and for all the earnings to be ringfenced to be used sorting out local cycle schemes for London boroughs that are not doing enough. (And once London is 100 percent cycle friendly, the cameras could be given back to the local authorities. Local authorities that change should also be able to apply to be "taken out of special measures" if they present a workable plan to the London Assembly.)

I think the temporary things like wands and modal filters that are boxes dropped into roads, are great, as it helps give positive feedback to concerned NIMBYs and because some of the routes you show look like they expect cyclists to remember some wiggly manouvers that nobody would expect an HGV driver to have in the back of their head before they drove their vehicle. Cycle routes should be assessed and there should be feedback, and adjustments so that cyclists don't get lost and miss the places where they need to join or exit a pavement. Care should also be taken to make sure any transitions between a cycle track and a pavement or a pavement and road are not liable to throw a kid off of a bike with small wheels. And we maybe should not be encouraging kids to "appear" on a street between two sets of cycle hire bikes without the road having traffic calming measures to make cars decelerate coming up to that gap in the cycles.

Quick flashes of the William Mitchell murals along Thomas Baines Road at 1m:35s and the 1950’s John Piper Building murals at 4m:51s

A great route! Thank you for creating this video. Its amazing how close CJ and Fulham are by bicycle, especially compared to bus which takes a loooong time. Great to learn about the Wilberforce Estate and also the upgrades to Wandsworth Bridge too. Hopefully it makes the crossing more hospitable for everyone 🙏🚴

Could you let me know what camera you use and where you mount it, please? It looks too low to be on your helmet-likely it's on your jacket?